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I get so excited when I look at the "new posts" section and see you've posted something new, Alex! And this is so good!!!! There's such a felt way of drawing; really working with the colours to push the face forward and bring the background and shirt back. You have such a love of painting. And a love of painting living flesh. You have a focus, a personal vision which you need to express and brings you beyond making a merely clever painting. And this is not a common thing at all! Your technique has a purpose, it's not an end in itself. You can see this in the boy's face and arms - the richness and variety of the tones, the wonderful true light, and life in the brushmarks. And the design of the whole piece, with it's living, moving shadow - a really good, and not at all odd, colour to keep the face colours saturated. A beautiful expression of a beautiful boy in his living, growing, breathing flesh.
(You just need to look at the left arm and shoulder sleeve edge next to the shadow - a bit generalised and stiff - perhaps play around with obscuring and redefining the edges, giving it more of a suggestion of fullness and three-dimensionality)
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